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240 STRAY LETTEBS ON EMIGRATION.
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« Our Scheme For Promoting The Emigratio...
In the Law Office to assist her Imsband while laboring under some temporary difficulty , I can add that the situation therein referred
to is still vacant , and that any lady ( a Quaker would be preferred ) who may think well of the offer is requested to call at the
Law-Copying Office , 12 , Portugal Street , where further particulars can be obtained , as Miss Rye is anxious to meet with some one who
will bind themselves to learn and practise the business for a few months that she may be able to fill in the post both speedily
and satisfactorily . Madam , Queensland , June 5 th , 1861 .
copy I ist a Quaker ceive , by lad the y who Cornhill writes Magazine a beautiful , th hand at you . have in your office , as a objection As I am to travel solicitor I am , I willing write to to inform you her that in the shou same ld the capacit lady have fothe no
term of five years , , at a salary of twenty engage -six pounds per annumand y r find and t health he amount prov an id d of her sim her ilar boar passag to d I tal e d money lodging to this at my colony own , residence the climate , a of nd which , also to is very pay y .
If you will be good enoug y h to mention this subject to her , and should my h t o ffer er comp d epart l y u c with epte re from d the , if E regulations she nglan will d , communicate and of mak the e Immi a remittance her grati name on Ac to and her t , I age . will , Salary to arrange enable to com me for
mence on arrival . I am , Madam , your obedient servant , * * * The following is addressed to Miss CroweSecretary to the Societ
, y for Promoting the Employment of _"Women , by a lady resident in Vancouver ' s Island , north of California : —
Fern wood , Victoria , Vancouver's Island , 4 tli July , 1861 . Mabam
, is no In opening reply to whatever your letter in thi of s colony the 19 th at of present February for , I immi am grants sorry to of say the there class
in which you feel so deeply interested , . The onl , y women wlio would find a mation ready occupation , and and a profitable twelve , months are women servants . From all the
_inforcolonists dozen than at I . can a At or time gather this , at moment would , not too find , and frequent laces for some intervals ' little personal time , would , experience prospectivel be absorbed , batches y , not b m y of ore the a thirty forty quickl .
The disproportion of the sexes p is _great here y at presentand maid-servants coining The climate out from is home exceeding get married lhealth quick and ly closel , if tliey resembles choose , . _tliat of England
In there exceeds some 90 respects onl ° F ., and it in is better winter y . , althoug The y , th h ermometer there is y much in summer deep mud scarcel and y rain ever , .
The eveaings are y and about nights ten in day summer s of snowy are very weather cool . and Fogs tolerabl are y of severe rare occur cold - . rence .
enable The them colonists to subscribe are too poor to an , and emi their gration affair fund s not . sufficiently prosperous , to Everything has to be done here , and all commenced at once : houses
_verbial munications and adjuncts offices expensiveness of to civilization established be built of , ; , to the & churches c be , Pacific while established the to coast be cost . built ; Sub lan of living d s ; cri schools cleared ptions _exceeds , , too roads and even are all made incessant the the , other com pro - - .
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240 Stray Lettebs On Emigration.
240 STRAY _LETTEBS ON _EMIGRATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/24/
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